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Yesterday I showed you a blue-hued garden from the Memphis Fling. Today I springiness you pink! Casa Rosa, the location and plot of Margot McNeely and Gary Backaus, lives up to its romanticist name. Pink flowers and wine-red foliage play disconnected the brushed terracotta stucco of the house, creating a warm, welcoming vibe, adjacent successful the rain.
The Mediterranean-style location sits connected a 1-acre lot. Out front, a tract segues into curvy swaths of purple coneflower, canna, and different flowering plants.
Pollinator garden
Despite the rainfall that chased america backmost to our autobus astatine the extremity of the visit, this was 1 of my favourite gardens connected the tour. I similar however the meadowy coneflowers are corralled by wide gravel paths befitting the attack to the beforehand door. Pretty ornamental trees framework glimpses of the house.
Purple coneflowers — some achromatic and pinkish ones — connection up their orangish cones for bees and butterflies.
The coneflowers supply a spot of meadow on the instauration excessively — a bully alteration from the emblematic house-hugging evergreen instauration shrub.
A person look
More coneflowers, positive a matching pinkish hydrangea successful back
Pink flowers connected show connected the beforehand patio
A equine caput sculpture too
A brace of them flank a ceramic patio astatine the beforehand of the house.
The patio overlooks a splashing tiered fountain acceptable successful the gravel path.
Coneflowers galore
How the butterflies indispensable flock to this plot connected drier days.
Fountain garden
A tiered fountain is simply a classical Southern prime for a h2o feature, and this 1 is perfection. The dripping water, successful strands of wide beads, mildly rains into each pool.
Just arsenic beauteous from a distance
Along the gravel path, 1 level stone, slicked with rain, offers a Zen-like infinitesimal adjacent a solitary birdbath. I was a small amazed to spot a thicket of yucca successful a Tennessee garden, but they bash complement the Mediterranean house.
Memphis gardens person spectacular Japanese maples, similar this shaggy beast beyond the birdbath.
Another presumption of the location opens up on the path…
…as good arsenic a tiny oval tract edged by bananas and the Japanese maple.
Canna provides much burgundy foliage, echoing a modern bronze sculpture.
More yuccas against a gorgeous backdrop of silvery greenish foliage.
A smaller bronze sculpture rises from a wide of reddish and orangish daylilies.
Gravel garden
Passing a swimming pool, I turned a country into the backyard and recovered my rain-slickered question companions. Also, an awesome Chinese elm holding tribunal connected a ample gravel patio.
The backmost of the location is charming with lanterns glowing, tile extortion shining successful the rain, and bluish doors beckoning.
The expanse of gravel, with an outdoor array and chairs shaded by the elm, makes a earthy gathering place.
Potted plants formal up the doorway steps.
Romantic lighting
Lovely doorway color
In a tiny passageway betwixt the location and a screened porch, a built-up plinth displays potted plants and statuary. Wall trellises promote potted vines to climb.
A beauteous niche and St. Francis of carved chromatic is the centerpiece. I’d emotion to cognize the communicative down this portion and wherever it was found.
It’s each precise San Miguel de Allende.
The queenly Chinese elm and much seating
I peeked wrong the handsome screened porch…
…and recovered Rachel sketching there, arsenic she did successful each plot we visited.
Danniel was smiling successful her umbrella-style Tula hat.
Frank and Theo weren’t letting the rainfall get them down either.
I recovered Kimberley retired front, her pinkish rainfall overgarment a cleanable colour lucifer for Casa Rosa.
A past look astatine the tiered fountain connected the mode out.
One more
Japanese maple, hosta, and black-eyed Susan on the drive
And a past deed of orangish and lime greenish astatine the gate, wherever cannas bid a tropicalesque farewell.
Up next: A secret plot with a histrion goddess astatine Chip Morrison’s house. For a look backmost astatine Linda Pittman’s blue-accented shadiness garden, click here.
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